Lesson Plans & Activities

Element Concentration

This is a type of memory game that helps students to learn/review element names and symbols. I used the groups that the students sit in (6) as their groups for playing. The second page has a game that uses eight elements. The third page is more difficult, because 15 elements are used. One student from the first group comes up and selects two atoms. If they find a matching pair of element name and symbol, they leave it "face up" and their group gets the point. If not, they click the atoms to turn them over. Rotate through the groups until all pairs have been found.